Ann Kannings

Henri Matisse: His Words

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  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A picture must possess a real power to generate light, and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light, or rather in light.
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A musician once said: In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed. It is therefore necessary to present oneself with the greatest humility: white, pure and candid with a mind as if empty, in a spiritual state analogous to that of a communicant approaching the Lord's Table. Obviously it is necessary to have all of one's experience behind one, but to preserve the freshness of one's instincts
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A large part of the beauty of a picture arises from the struggle which an artist wages with his limited medium
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man...
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted4 years ago
    A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted5 years ago
    Never ruin a good painting with the truth.
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted5 years ago
    A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
  • Фелиция Белковаhas quoted5 years ago
    I simply put down colours which render my sensation
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